Texas is the next best thing! We have a beautiful coast....Galveston, Seabrook, Kema, even Baytown is on the Bay....warm weather most of the year; Large cities, Houston...sports, shopping, theatre, good schools. It really does have a lot to offer! We love it here! Come on down y'all!
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HE HE HE You just wouldn't know what to think if we all showed up on your doorstep, Jeanne! LOL
I have a tent, and I know how to make a teepee! LOL!
Hey I have slept in both! LOL We used to go to Rendezvous when I was a kid and had Lean-Tos and Teepee's! :)
Me too!!!! Brothers were in Scouts - and I was the second girl ever admitted into the Explorer Scouts....loved Rendezvous!
Hey Shari, what kind of Rendezvous did you go to? We went to the ones where everyone was dressed in Capote's and Loin Cloths! LOL
Ours were up in the mountains of southern CA, and we all dressed as Indians of one sort or another...that was with the Weblos. As Explorers, we didn't do the dress up bit - but we certainly had a lot of fun!
Oh wasn't it a blast! We did primitive, Indian, etc.... Plain dress was not allowed other than the day set for people to come in and take a look around. A funny story now, but NOT back then, was a time we were at one and I had a TON of bees fly up my skirt! I was a 'modest' teen back then, but when you have bees swarming up your dress, you just do NOT care! I ended up with MANY stings and had to lay on my belly and let my mother pick those little stingers outa my you know what! Thankfully one of the people who attended was a friend, and worked in a pharmacy in the 'real' world! LOL This same place I also learned the hard way that I was allergic to something in the River and wasn't aware till I got out of the water. Then broke out into these huge hives that itched like MAD! Again, our friend was there to save me, then I took allergy meds PRIOR to getting into the river and had to stay at least long enough for them to take affect. Quite a child hood I had! LOL
Oh Tammy! It's amazing that you remember the trips fondly!!!!
Oh yes, especially that particular place! LOL
I remember one field trip we took in high school out to the desert. Some of the guys were goofing off and accidentally knocked a gal into a cactus. Everyone had to stand around outside the bus while the teacher/guide extracted hundreds of needles from her back, backside, and legs. It took hours! The goof offs were not exactly Mr. Popular after that little affair!
OMG that would have to be worse than all my bee stings!!!! But at least the Goof's got knocked down a notch off their totem pole! LOL
Yup, it's always a treat when that happens....but I am very glad that YOU recovered enough to have a funny (?) memory.
Well it has been, well lets see, do I really wanna tell?! LOL Somewhere around 22 years since that happened, so it can be funny now that the pain is gone! LOL We had a lot of great times at these, made a lot of cool friends, and many nice memories. I remember one night there was a family of skunks that were around our Teepee. Dad said he had gone out to go potty and there they were! LOL THEN, they got into our friends Teepee, inside! Bet he moved faster than he ever had in his lifetime! HA HA HA
Ahhhhh...pretty kitty! Right! LOL!!!
Purdiest kitty there ever was! LOL
Is it Spring yet anyone????? I am sick to death of this cold, nasty weather!!!
I want to be able to get out and play in the dirt with my purties! :o)
I have a plum and two oranges blooming for the first time.
This is our time of year for great weather. When I am languishing with the heat and humidity in August you all can gloat.
My friend Tony has been working for me all week and we have made some good progress in general clean up. We are also cleaning up a brush/compost pile and building a tiered garden out of tires.
When I moved in here about four years ago there were a few concrete walls and some footings. No windows,no floors, no roofs, no shade. Tony helped me move so he knows how much progress has been made. We both take time to admire our work and how much has been acomplished. As we were filling the center tires for the bed I noticed how the bokashi fish scraps have heated up the compost. I was smiling for hours. I'm really a very simple soul. I have walls, windows, roofs, a few floors, electricity, running water, a view of the Sea of Cortez and blooming fruit trees. Plus Tony helping me for a week And warm compost. It doesn't get much better than this.
katiebear
Well, I ate an orange today, but it sure wasn't from my own tree! Doggone it anyway! One day, in my dreams probably, I will move to a warm climate! :o)
Ahhhhh the good life! :*)
And ground hog stew! LOL
With a lovely plum and orange sauce.
Fish and shrimp, no ground hogs.
kb
No Ginger, Kim?
Only fish I like is from Mc Donalds! LOL And I don't like any seafood, either. I know, I am weird! :o)
Now i'm hungry :)
HA HA HA I just ate more supper cause it was so good! :)
Ginger goes with everything! No golden arch fish for me!
Well, if mine does well I might have to try to use some!
We just had that golden arch fish night before last! :o)
I'm signing off.. Good Night :o)
Nighty night! I am going soon myself. Nighty night KB! :o)
Night. Sleep tight.
kb
Save me a shrimp kb...see ya!!
Are you ready? We had fresh fruit directly from the tree every morning and evening at Jen's. This was for our choosing:
coconut, passionfruit, lichi, 7 types of banana, lime, pumelo, oranges, cherry, 4 types of guava, papaya, 2 types of avocado, sour sop, sweet sop, starfruit, 2 types pomegranite, 6 types mango, coffee. All at the same time a tree will put on new leave, drop old leaves, bloom and produce fruit. Does not need to have a succession of each. Eden
Kilikina
WOW Christi, I bet you had a blast while you were at Jen's!!! I never knew there were that many types of bananas!!! Did you try each one, if so, which did you like best? I love mango, but it is so expensive here we rarely buy it. So to be able to have it fresh whenever you want would be awesome! You are back home now, right? I bet it was the time of your life, and one you will never forget!!!
HUGS
Tammy
I never knew anything about most of these fruits. IF you can find them to purchase, they DON'T taste like they do fresh. Going to download pictures from my camera later today and begin a journal. I never, ever imagined anything like Maui. Has truly changed our lives. Did you know once a banana stalk blooms, it never blooms again? Therefore the pups are very important as the mother plant is hacked down so the pups can take over and produce. Just a little trivia.
Kilikina
I can only imagine how much better the fruit would taste fresh right from the source. Makes my mouth water now! I past up a banana for breakfast just thinking it couldn't be the same as what you have been eating! That is interesting about the banana never blooming again!
You can be sure I didn't know that. Or much of anything else.
I bet your head is swimming with so much now it is having a hard time grasping it all! :o)
That is true. That is why Mike and I are going to do the journal while we still have everything fresh on our minds. Maybe the pictures will help us organize our thoughts.
Sounds so beautiful Christi! Your now spoiled no fruit wil ever be as lush and sweet tasting.